Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-22-Speech-4-016-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Ashley Fox2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, may I thank Mr Cassini and my fellow committee members for their work on this resolution, which contains several good suggestions. We all agree that we need to improve the procedures of the next European elections. We should try to encourage greater participation in these elections by our citizens. I support the change suggested to bring forward the elections from June to May 2014. This will allow Parliament more time to scrutinise the new Commission President. In the United Kingdom, holding the election in May will make it easier to tie in the European elections with our local elections. This will save the taxpayer money and should increase participation. I was pleased that the paragraph which called for at least half of the Commissioners to be drawn from Members of the European Parliament was removed in committee. We should not restrict the right of Member States to choose whom they wish to be their Commissioner. I hope that the new Commission contains both men and women of real talent. They should be appointed on merit, and merit alone. I do not support the demand in this report that the European political parties nominate a candidate for the Presidency of the Commission who should lead the campaign. The Member States in Council will choose the new Commission President. I ask Members here this question: if centre-right parties form a majority in Council in 2014, do you really think that they will appoint a socialist – perhaps like Martin Schulz – to be the Commission President, just because socialist parties hold more votes than EPP parties in the European elections? In my view, that is not going to happen. For that reason, my Group cannot support this resolution."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ashley Fox,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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